Documents in our library describe Colorlith (Johns-Manville) as “asbestos-cement sheets treated for high chemical resistance and adapted particularly for use as laboratory table tops, shelves, drainboards, fume hoods, and the like”.1 They give it as sold from 1955.1 They put its asbestos content at 40%.2 Where the documents differ, each is listed below with its source.
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What each document says
Every statement about Colorlith (Johns-Manville) in the documents, in each document's own words.
USPTO trademark case files (Trademark Full Text XML Data, Annual Applications, 2025 edition)
- Sold from: “first used in commerce 1955-02-11”, said by JOHNS-MANVILLE CORPORATION, as recorded by U.S. Patent and Trademark Office1
- Description: “ASBESTOS-CEMENT SHEETS TREATED FOR HIGH CHEMICAL RESISTANCE AND ADAPTED PARTICULARLY FOR USE AS LABORATORY TABLE TOPS, SHELVES, DRAINBOARDS, FUME HOODS, AND THE LIKE”, said by JOHNS-MANVILLE CORPORATION, as recorded by U.S. Patent and Trademark Office1
Johns-Manville Material Safety Data Sheet for COLORLITH (1979)
Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: Medical, Legal, and Engineering Aspects, Volume Two
- Description: “asbestos-cement sheets”, p. 693
Manville Fund's Responses to Plaintiffs' Interrogatories in Moore v. H.K. Porter (1990)
- Made at: “Nashua Plant (1907 to 1985): Colorlith” (at Nashua) (the plant: Nashua, New Hampshire), p. 244
- Asbestos content: “asbestos containing”, p. 244
Kind of product
We list Colorlith (Johns-Manville) with asbestos-cement pipe, board and sheet, from how the documents describe it. That page explains how such products exposed workers.
Trades that worked with products like it: Carpenters and Construction Workers.
Other asbestos-cement pipe, board and sheet by Johns-Manville (119)
Flexboard · Thermobestos · Min-k · Asbestocel · Metal-on · C Millboard · Carinsul · Cedargrain · Chemstone · Colorbestos · Colorceran · Colorchip · Colorlith Chalkboard · Colorsil · Corspan · Dekeran · Equality · Face Span · Facespan · Fine Corrugated Asbestocel · and 99 more on the company's page
Asbestos-cement pipe, board and sheet by other makers (264)
Careytemp (Philip Carey) · Unibestos (Union Asbestos & Rubber Co.) · Unibestos (Pittsburg Corning) · Sal-mo (Nicolet) · Careycel (Philip Carey) · Classic (Gold Bond Building Products (National Gypsum)) · Classic-Shake (National Gypsum) · Clipfast (GAF) · Color Ground (Ruberoid) · Color-tex (GAF) · Color-Tex (Ruberoid) · Colorator (Ruberoid) · Concord (U.S. Gypsum) · Country Club (Supradur) · Coverall Board (Philip Carey) · Ct (Plus Other Notations) (Certain-Teed Products) · Deluxe Stonewall (Ruberoid) · Detroc Board (M. H. Detrick) · Don'T Monkey With Cheap Roofs (Lone Star Roofing) · Du Shield (Flintkote) · and 244 more: all asbestos-cement pipe, board and sheet
See also
- Johns-Manville: the company's history, documents, people, products and plants
- Johns-Manville on our products page: what the documents say about the company's asbestos products, with sources
References
- USPTO trademark case files (Trademark Full Text XML Data, Annual Applications, 2025 edition) (March 16, 1955). Not yet published in our library.
- Johns-Manville Material Safety Data Sheet for COLORLITH (May 26, 1979), p. 1.
- Sourcebook on Asbestos Diseases: Medical, Legal, and Engineering Aspects, Volume Two (1986), p. 69. Not yet published in our library.
- Manville Fund's Responses to Plaintiffs' Interrogatories in Moore v. H.K. Porter (February 15, 1990), p. 24.
Mentioned on this site
- Dr. Kenneth Smith to Patrick A. Christel of Hamilton Manufacturing on Colorlith Dust (1958)
- E. M. Fenner to D. B. Wingerter on Which Insulation Products to Label (1969)
- H. M. Jackson to the Los Angeles Division of Occupational Health on Marinite, Colorlith, Asbestocite and Transite (1960)
- H. M. Jackson to Western Gold and Platinum Company on the Health Hazards of Colorlith (1956)
- Johns-Manville Material Safety Data Sheet for COLORLITH (1979)
- R. W. Dobson to C. P. Weber on Health Hazard Labels for Marinite and Other Sheet Products (1969)
- S. E. Williams to H. M. Jackson on a Customer's Question About Colorlith Dust (1956)
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